[Sca-cooks] watermills

[Terry Decker]

The few examples of horizontal mills I've encountered seem to have multiple 
wheels, shafts and millstones, so the output may not be as small as you 
think.

Bear

> Hmmm... I think I have a copy of that book somewhere. What I'm interested 
> in
> is the percentage of each type and if they were regionally concentrated by
> type.  I would expect that undershot wheels would be located on major 
> rivers
> and have higher capacities per mill while the over shot wheels would be 
> more
> varied in size and capacity.  I would expect the horizontal mills be to
> generally the smallest in capacity.  All this is just conjecture in search
> of confirmatory data which the Domesday Book would address as a historical
> "snapshot".
>
> Daniel